Educate me, because I think I've found an outright error in the linked page: > In Tcl serialization just happens for many types because almost everything has a

Educate me, because I think I've found an outright error in the linked page: > In Tcl serialization just happens for many types because almost everything has a string representation. You can write a Tcl list in a file just with: puts $fd $list. This is not possible in Lisp, where you need to perform serialization. This is, from what I can see, wrong: In Lisp, you have the write function, which can 'serialize' arbitrarily complex data structures in a form acceptable to the read function. That's pretty much it, unless you're trying to do something odd like applying write to a compiled function or some other implementation-specific bizarre internal data structure that doesn't have a write-able representation. Therefore, the linked page seems to be missing or mis-stating a core feature of Lisp. Am I wrong about this? Does the Tcl world have something significantly different in this regard?